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F# is Microsoft's first functional programming language to be included as one of Visual Studio's official set of languages. F# is a succinct, efficient, expressivefunctional/object-oriented programming language under joint development by Microsoft Developer Division and Microsoft Research.

In Part 3 of this 3-part lecture series, Dr. Don Syme elaborates further on:

I guess you hard very limited time between meetings or whatever to record these because they did seem very rushed at points. Still, a good introduction to F# which I'm looking forward to using at some point. I always baulked at the use of syntactic whitespace
in Python, but after seeing F# code samples and comparing it to OCaml, I guess it does make sense.

I notice that in Visual Studio 2010 RC, there are only a few F# project templates. To make an F# WPF app you would have to start with a console app, change it's type to Windows Application and reference the necessary assemblies (and possibly some other stuff).
I wonder if this is going to be improved for the release?

btw. I think F# is very compact in most ways, but don't you think it's ironic that C# actually has a more compact syntax for lambdas, requiring the fun keyword when C# makes do by just using a unique operator?

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